ByteMovie
Posted: January 15, 2016
Threat Metric
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
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Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 16 |
First Seen: | January 15, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | January 10, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
ByteMovie is an adware that claims that it will let you watch free movies online. Some people may download the application intentionally, assuming ByteMovie will indeed provide them with access to a free movie library. However, the ad-supported extension may also attach towards the browsers of the user automatically. This action may happen if the PC user downloads a freeware that promotes ByteMovie as a recommended addition. ByteMovie may create an extension in all present Web clients, including the popular Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, the announced feature may not work as some users may be expecting. It is very likely that ByteMovie will simply redirect you towards third-party sites that may ask you to register. After that, you may see that you either have access to only a few movies or the free watching is for a limited period only. Even if the pages seem handy, you can always open them directly without the 'intermediation' of this adware. There are other good reasons to delete it as well. ByteMovie may cause changes in the browsers ByteMovie may replace your homepage with a suspicious search platform that may contain a lot of sponsored links. The adware also may generate various pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads, in-text ads, etc. They may show discounts on products that you may have searched in recent past. When you click on these commercial materials and reach the sponsored domains, the developers of ByteMovie will receive referral commissions. Unfortunately, these ads may not benefit you as much because they may open highly suspicious sites that you should not trust. The multimedia elements in some ads may hinder the normal functionality of your browsers. When you know that this adware has few pros and too many cons, you should consider deleting it.
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